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Over the past 2 decades, we have spent considerable time and effort trying to perfect the world of data warehousing. We took the technology that we were given and the data that would fit into that technology, and tried to provide our business constituents…

dAre you one of those entrepreneurs who are thinking to start a new business? Well, I am pretty sure you want it to be successful. In this fast-paced business world, it is necessary for you to have the insight and data needed in order to take the right…

The adoption rate of embedded analytics among business users is twice that of traditional business intelligence (BI) tools, according to the fourth annual State of Embedded Analytics report by Logi Analytics. The report, which studied how organizations embed…

Out with the old and in with the new. And with that, Gartner totally restructured their signature Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. Gartner said that “the market share leaders SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, MicroStrategy, and SAS have amassed large…

How big is your company, and what resources does it have? What are your performance needs? Answering these questions and others can help you select the right data warehouse platform. Once you've decided to implement a new data warehouse, or expand an existing…

Organizations today don’t use previous generation architectures to store their big data. Why would they use previous-generation BI tools for big data analysis? When looking at BI tools for your organization, there are 10 “Commandments” you should live by.…

Automation can be a huge help, but automating concepts before you understand them is a recipe for disaster. The concept of devops has taken root in the world of business intelligence and analytics. The overall concept of devops has been around for a while in…

In the dark about data warehousing? You’re not alone You would be forgiven for not knowing data warehousing exists, let alone that it’s been automated. It’s not a topic that gets a lot of coverage in the UK, unlike in the USA and Europe. It might be that…

Revenue in the business forecasting market will grow this year, a market analyst firm is forecasting. Ugh, this sentence hurt my brain. Anyway, Gartner predicts that the revenue in the business intelligence and analytics market will grow 5.2 per cent this…

Many organizations have sung the praises of business intelligence for years, but many of those firms were not actually realizing the full benefits of it. That picture is beginning to change, as advanced analytics tools and techniques mature. The result is…

Business intelligence and big data are driving transformative changes and remain the No. 1 CIO priority for the second consecutive year. It's not just the velocity and volume of information to deal with, it's the new types of information and greater…

It?s a maxim that top-down support is a prerequisite for business intelligence BI- success. Any BI pro worth his or her salt will tell you as much. The rub, according to IT seer Gartner Inc., is that so few BI and performance management PM- projects actually…

Despite a slightly dimmer view of current business conditions, most CIOs are more optimistic today than just a few months ago when it comes to future business strength and spending, according to a new study.

Business performance management BPM- has gone, in just five short years, from a silo of data in the office of finance to an enterprise-wide application that has proven to have a fundamental impact on the overall performance of an organization.

A large majority of organizations 83 percent in a recent survey- suffer from problems caused by poor master data, according to a report issued today by TDWI, the leading provider of research and training for data warehousing and business intelligence…

The concept of allowing data to move offshore radically breaks with tradition of keeping the corporate jewels relatively close to home. Nonetheless, two trends are evident: Small companies are beginning to offshore IT infrastructure one application at a…

The disconnect between business and IT is often lamented. A lot is spoken and written about this chasm. Ostensibly, a lot is done to bridge it. Yet, most would agree the chasm still exists. Conventional wisdom says the root cause of this problem is business…

Although many senior executives see potentially high value in the data in their company s information systems, less than half said their organization is effective at converting it to usable knowledge, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers latest Management…

The main driver behind software development has always been functionality. Software is meant to provide new or expanded access to data and services, and the requirements for software are typically written with these needs in mind.

With the increased pressure to perform, to do it more cost-effectively and to comply with the ever-growing number of regulatory and public reporting requirements, it is easy for healthcare organizations to get caught up in the problems of the day. It is…

Reducing security breaches is a key business priority for CIOs, and the security industry is addressing this priority as it moves to the next phase of its evolution, according to Gartner, Inc. This next phase for the security market will integrate security…

You did everything right. There was a steering committee, charter, process, framework, thorough analysis and an unbelievable deliverable. This was a perfect IT strategy?even the consultant said so. Then why did it fail?

The new, new thing in business intelligence these days is competitive intelligence. No, we are not talking about James Bond. Neither are we wondering about the meeting schedules of the executives at our competitor company.

A new survey of business intelligence and data warehousing BI/DW- professionals reveals that despite multiple initiatives to eliminate time and cost overruns in the implementation of BI/DW projects, a clear majority still anticipates and experiences those…

There is a general consensus among industry experts that healthcare organizations HCOs- ? hospitals, specialty clinics, and other medical facilities ? have lagged behind other vertical industries in embracing business intelligence BI- and adopting it as a…

Companies that integrate their IT systems quickly after a merger have fewer problems than those that make the transition slowly, according to Anosh Thakkar, global manager for corporate performance management and business intelligence at Mittal Steel.

The IT Infrastructure Library ITIL- germinated in the UK with the goal of creating a set of universal standards for delivering high quality IT services. Twenty years later, growing application complexity, increasing demands to improve service levels and…

Middle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong, according to results of an Accenture survey released today.

Watch for warning signs. Maybe your organization is discussing cutting the budget or outsourcing some part of IT. Or the volume of work continues to grow but you can?t get head count increases. Perhaps you rarely have lunch with other business executives, let…

The business analytics BA- software market?comprised of data warehousing tools, business intelligence tools and analytic applications?has been growing steadily even as spending on business software has slowed in the past five years.

Small enterprises risk spending an incremental 75 percent on outsourced IT functions versus keeping them in house if outsourcing is not managed properly, a recent impact research study from Info-Tech Research Group reveals.